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Henry James Saturley

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Henry James Saturley

Birth
Death
1940 (aged 68–69)
Burial
Innisfail, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada Add to Map
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Harry, aged sixteen, was placed alone aboard a ship and sent with little funds to Alberta with the hopes that the change in climate from London, England, would cure his comsumption. On July 26, 1888 he arrived at Sheep Creek south of Calgary, to stay at the Quorn Ranch. Harry's health improved. He wrote home of the homestead opportunities and in 1889 a cousin, Jim Lutley, was sent out to look after Harry. They travelled north as far as Lacombe looking over land, and returned south to purchase oxen and equipment and Jim homesteaded on land just SE of Penhold. Harry wasn't yet old enough to file. Using oxen, some 20 acres were made ready during 1890 for the next season's crop. It was a very dry year and a disastrous fire starting at Calgary swept the whole country, extending, after reaching Antler Hill, to Hill End and circling back and coming in across their land from the North, ending at the grade built for the railroad. Their breaking was the means of saving their few buildings and belongings. Even the soil was burnt out and nothing really grew until the wet seasons began in 1900. Jim turned his share over the Harry and left for B.C. in Nov 1896. Harry kept the ranch and worked it with hired help for many years. He married a neighbor's daughter, Julia Gillis. In 1905 they sold the 'Lutley Ranch'. Harry was a manager of Crown Lumber Co. in Innisfail, and was town councillor in 1912.
(From Candlelight Years; A History of Innisfail & Districts Pioneers. Saturley family story written by Mrs. Gerry Foster)

note: LDS site shows Henry James Saturley, born in New Brunswick, living in an Infant Orphan Asylum in Wanstead, Essex, England in 1881. However, 1916 Alberta census shows Henry as being born in PEI.

Children: Vera, b. at 1908 in Alberta
Harry, aged sixteen, was placed alone aboard a ship and sent with little funds to Alberta with the hopes that the change in climate from London, England, would cure his comsumption. On July 26, 1888 he arrived at Sheep Creek south of Calgary, to stay at the Quorn Ranch. Harry's health improved. He wrote home of the homestead opportunities and in 1889 a cousin, Jim Lutley, was sent out to look after Harry. They travelled north as far as Lacombe looking over land, and returned south to purchase oxen and equipment and Jim homesteaded on land just SE of Penhold. Harry wasn't yet old enough to file. Using oxen, some 20 acres were made ready during 1890 for the next season's crop. It was a very dry year and a disastrous fire starting at Calgary swept the whole country, extending, after reaching Antler Hill, to Hill End and circling back and coming in across their land from the North, ending at the grade built for the railroad. Their breaking was the means of saving their few buildings and belongings. Even the soil was burnt out and nothing really grew until the wet seasons began in 1900. Jim turned his share over the Harry and left for B.C. in Nov 1896. Harry kept the ranch and worked it with hired help for many years. He married a neighbor's daughter, Julia Gillis. In 1905 they sold the 'Lutley Ranch'. Harry was a manager of Crown Lumber Co. in Innisfail, and was town councillor in 1912.
(From Candlelight Years; A History of Innisfail & Districts Pioneers. Saturley family story written by Mrs. Gerry Foster)

note: LDS site shows Henry James Saturley, born in New Brunswick, living in an Infant Orphan Asylum in Wanstead, Essex, England in 1881. However, 1916 Alberta census shows Henry as being born in PEI.

Children: Vera, b. at 1908 in Alberta


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